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MARCH-APRIL 2015
WORLDNEWS
2015
AEDED2015Demolition
Forum
April 17, 2015
Gijón, Spain
Intermat
April 20 – 25, 2015
Paris, France
EDAAnnual Convention
June 2 – 6. 2015
Helsinki, Finland
Demo Expo
June 26 – 27, 2015
Reading, UK
NFDCAnnual Convention
2015
September 4 -7, 2015
Slieve Donard Resort,
Northern Ireland
BICES2015
September 22 – 25, 2015
Beijing, China
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Official_Site/11-5096-
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Bauma ConExpo Africa
September 15 - 18, 2015
Johannesburg. South Africa
IDEAutumn Seminar
September 25, 2015
London, UK
DIARY DATES
New board directors at Keltbray
Vince Corrigan, a newcomer to the company, and Paul Deacy have
been appointed as group executivemembers of Keltbray’s board of
directors.
Vince Corrigan joins the company from contractor Sir Robert
McAlpine, with whom he has spent more than 30 years, most
recently in the position of director and regional manager of the
firm’s London and South-East business. Vince said of hismove: “I
was hugely attracted to the numerous specialist streams Keltbray
operates in. These provide plenty of scope for carefullymanaged
further development and positioning within existing as well as
newmarket areas. I also have a passion for driving improvement
and innovation programmes, and nurturing high potential staff. I see these qualities as being a good
match for Keltbray’s own best practice reputation and track record in attracting and developing record
numbers of people through apprenticeships, internships and other training opportunities.”
Paul Deacy is currentlymanaging director of Keltbray Demolition& Civil engineering. Keltbray Group
managing director John Price said of his elevation: “Paul has risen through our ranks over the last
decade and assumed his current role in December 2013. He has since demonstrated his strong
leadership and creativity in driving the continued growth in our core businessmarkets, and we welcome
Paul’s continued positive contribution to the performance of the Group,”
Meccamove, not
demolition
butwouldalsohelp reduceany
unnecessarydisturbance to the
hospital patients.
The jackingand skidding
proposalwould take threemonths
to carryout andwouldbe the
first timeaproject of this type
hadbeen tried inSaudiArabia.
Engineering for theoperation
wasdonebyMammoet and
subcontractorTechniek en
Methode, part of theBresser
Group.
The first stageof theproject
beganwith the removal of the
minaret usinga crane.Next, the
groundunderneath themosque
was removedand replacedby
a supporting concretebase.
Skidding equipment, including
skid shoes, pushandpull units,
skid tracks andpowerpacks
were then installed.Onceall
the equipmentwas set up, the
mosquewas skiddedmore than
120m (395 ft) to itsnew location,
aprocess that took less than48
hours.
Seehttp://bit.ly/1MUmmvn for
avideoof themove.
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Mammoet’s proposal for themovewas to jack
up and slide the entiremosque to the new
location using a jacking and skidding system
International heavy lift and
specialised transport company
Mammoet helpedmovea
2,400 tonnemosque in Jeddah,
Kingdomof SaudiArabia, tomake
room for anewhospital.
Originally themosquewas
going tobedemolishedand
rebuilt at anew location,work
thatwould takearound10months
to complete. To save timeand to
save themosque fromdemolition,
Nesma calledonMammoet to
helpmove the entirebuilding
instead.
Mammoet’sproposal for the
movewas to jackupand slide the
building to thenew locationusing
a jackingand skidding system.
Thisplanwouldnot onlyhelp
keep themosque intact, allowing
visitors to continue theirprayers,
